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100 Slap Bass Grooves

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This course is perfect for those who have worked through the Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced slap bass modules and are looking for additional practice material. In this series of courses, we’ll be playing lines built around techniques such as ghost notes, fretting hand slaps, chord strumming, double popping, tenths, machine gun triplets, double thumbing, open-hammer-pop and more.

Each of the courses shown below contains a series of exercises based around a specific technique. For each course, there is a downloadable resources folder containing PDF worksheets and backing tracks for you to play along with. Full band tracks and isolated bass tracks are also available to download (course subscribers only).

Slap and Pop Grooves (Part 1)

The exercises in this course make use of the fundamental elements of the slap bass technique: thumb slaps, popped notes, hammer-ons and pull-offs.

Slap and Pop Grooves (Part 2)

The exercises in this course make use of the fundamental elements of the slap bass technique: thumb slaps, popped notes, hammer-ons and pull-offs.

Fretting Hand Slaps

The focus of this course is fretting hand slaps – percussive ghost notes that are performed by striking the strings with the fingers of the fretting hand.

Using Tenths

When playing slap bass, tenths are often used as an alternative to popped octave notes, bringing the added benefit of greater harmonic clarity to a line.

Machine Gun Triplets

Machine gun triplets are rapid-fire triplets performed using a combination of picking hand and fretting hand techniques.

Double Stops

Double stops are useful when playing slap bass as they can be used to achieve a chordal effect, but with fewer notes than fully voiced chords.

Strumming

Strumming chords works well in conjunction with the slap bass technique. There are many bassists who incorporate strumming into their slap playing.

Swung Sixteenth Note Grooves

It's easy to fall into the trap of only playing slapped lines in straight 4/4 time. This course therefore features exercises which are played with a swung sixteenth note feel.

Shuffle Grooves

When playing over the shuffle feel, linear slap grooves can be a little more difficult to execute. It's these grooves that we’ll be focussing on in this video course.

Double Thumbing

Using double thumbing, it is possible to play lines that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to play using traditional slap technique.

Double Popping

Double popping involves popping notes with both the first and second fingers. These popped notes are often combined with a slapped note to create a triplet rhythm.

The Open-Hammer-Pop Technique

The open-hammer-pop technique is a combination of three conventional slap bass elements: a slapped open string, a hammer-on, and a popped note.